Board of Directors

Johnny Bertucci

Chairman

Johnny is a founding Board member of The Ark and The Dove, Inc., and since 2015 has served as Chairman and CEO. As a co-founder, Johnny has provided international, national, and regional leadership in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (Renewal) as

Andres Arango

Board Member

Andres was elected to the Board of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. in 2017 given his international prominence, multicultural leadership and national and international speaking engagements in the Renewal, especially in the Spanish-speaking Renewal in North, Central and South

Michelle Moran

Board Member

Michelle was elected to the Board of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. in 201_ given her international prominence and network, overall Renewal leadership, and experience in coordinating with Church hierarchy, especially at the Vatican. She brings to The Ark

Ronald S. Riggins

Board Member

Ron is a founding Board member of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. As a co-founder, Ron has been active in national leadership in the Renewal and provides organizational, financial, and operational gifts to The Ark and The Dove.

Tom Mangan

Board Member

Tom is a founding Board member of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. As a co-founder and Pittsburgh resident, Tom has been active in national and regional leadership in the Renewal and an ecumenical charismatic covenant community. Tom maintains established

Mother Lucy, DLJC

Board Member

Mother Lucy was elected to the Board of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. in 2020, as she was the Superior General of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ (DLJC) who, as Administrators of the Retreat Center in 2017,

Johnny Bertucci

Chairman

Johnny Bertucci is a prominent leader in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement. Born in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit as a teenager and has been actively involved

Andrés Arango

Board Member

Andrés is the bishop’s delegate for Hispanic ministry and director of evangelization for the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey. Currently, he is the president of the Latin-American Catholic Charismatic Council...

Michelle Moran

Board Member

Michelle together with her husband Peter is a founder member of Sion Catholic Community for Evangelism and has been involved in full-time ministry for over 30 years. She is an author of several books on evangelization.

Ron Riggins

Board Member

As RCIA Director at Church of the Nativity in Burke and Chairman of Pentecost Today USA, formerly the National Service Committee, Ron’s catechetical approach focuses on encountering Christ, developing

Tom Mangan

Board Member

I consider The Ark and The Dove to be a second home because it is part of my neighborhood. As a Duquesne University alumnus from Pittsburgh, I have frequented it often. Over the years the historic importance of this

Mother Lucy, DLJC

Board Member

Mother Lucy was born, Linda Kay Lukasiewicz, in Grand Island, Nebraska. At age 17, Linda began to hear of and experience charismatic prayer meetings and baptism in the Holy Spirit. Soon after she was given information

In Memoriam

Charles Simpson

Remembering Charles Simpson, Board Member

Known as “Brother Charles,” he was elected to the Board of The Ark and The Dove in 2019 to expand our ecumenical mission with an internationally recognized leader who had been embraced by the Renewal since the early days following

Jimmy Archer

Board Member

Jimmy was a founding Board member of The Ark and The Dove, Inc. As onsite Administrator for a couple of years after the 2015 purchase, he established several Retreat Center processes in place today and was active in mission advancement

Charles Simpson

Remembering Charles Simpson, Board Member

There is that time when the Lord brings to our lives a person far different from our spiritual roots to show us a side of Christ we wouldn’t otherwise know. Brother Charles Simpson, a Southern Baptist, was such a man,

Jimmy Archer

Board Member

Jimmy was baptized in 1954 and baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1975 where he was forever changed by the love of the Father. He is being formed by the heart of God to present His Heart. A former member of the National